Remediation Complete At 41-Acre Fox Park Site In North Denver

Environmental remediation is complete on a 41-acre site in Denver's Globeville neighborhood that is slated to become a mixed-use development, marking a milestone for the long-awaited project. 

Fox Park will feature more than 1,000 mixed-income and affordable housing units, as well as 1.5M SF of office space developed by Trammell Crow. It will also become the new home of World Trade Center Denver and will include two hotels.

A former Denver Post printing and distribution center on the site will be redeveloped into 500K SF of retail space.

The area was once the site of a heavy metals smelter and was declared a Superfund site in 1999. After years of work and the removal of tons of hazardous waste, the environmental cleanup is over and work on the development can begin.

The site sits at the intersection of I-70 and I-25.

Vita Fox North, an international partnership between Pure Development of Indianapolis and Mexico City-based Interland, purchased the property in 2019 for $56.5M.

The Denver Business Journal reports the four phases of the Fox Park project will take 10 years to complete.

“Transforming contaminated properties into community assets is a fundamental goal for Superfund cleanups, and today we celebrate a reuse success that has been a long time in the making,” K.C. Becker, administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Mountains and Plains region, said in a written statement cited by the DBJ.

“It is gratifying to see these extensive efforts result in a multi-faceted redevelopment that will bring new life and energy to North Denver,” she said.